Hemiptera of Cyprus : Cicadellidae Family

Acericerus vittifrons Cicadellidae
Aconura oculata Cicadellidae
Aconurella prolixa Cicadellidae
Anaceratagallia laevis Cicadellidae
Anoscopus histrionicus Cicadellidae
Aphrodes bicinctus Cicadellidae
Asymmetrasca decedens Cicadellidae
Austroagallia sinuata Cicadellidae
Balclutha frontalis Cicadellidae
Balclutha hebe Cicadellidae
Balclutha punctata Cicadellidae
Balclutha rosea Cicadellidae
Balclutha saltuella Cicadellidae
Batracomorphus glaber Cicadellidae
Bugraia ocularis Cicadellidae
Chlorita mendax Cicadellidae
Cicadulina bipunctata Cicadellidae
Circulifer haematoceps Cicadellidae
Circulifer opacipennis Cicadellidae
Conosanus obsoletus Cicadellidae
Docotettix cornutus Cicadellidae
Doratulina acuticeps Cicadellidae
Doratulina instabilis Cicadellidae
Edwardsiana kemneri Cicadellidae
Edwardsiana rosae Cicadellidae
Eohardya fraudulentus Cicadellidae
Erythria seclusa Cicadellidae
Eupelix cuspidata Cicadellidae
Eupteryx cypria Cicadellidae
Eupteryx insulana Cicadellidae
Eupteryx stachydearum Cicadellidae
Eurhadina ribauti Cicadellidae
Euscelidius schenckii Cicadellidae
Euscelis incisus Cicadellidae
Exitianus capicola Cicadellidae
Fruticidia bisignata Cicadellidae
Goniagnathus brevis Cicadellidae
Grypotes staurus Cicadellidae
Hauptidia armata Cicadellidae
Hauptidia distinguenda Cicadellidae
Hauptidia provincialis Cicadellidae
Hauptidia stellata Cicadellidae
Hecalus glaucescens Cicadellidae
Hespericerus brusinae Cicadellidae
Liguropia juniperi Cicadellidae
Limassolla pistaciae Cicadellidae
Limotettix striola Cicadellidae
Macropsis acrotirica Cicadellidae
Macropsis scutellata Cicadellidae
Macrosteles sexnotatus Cicadellidae
Megophthalmus scanicus Cicadellidae
Micantulina acuticeps Cicadellidae
Micantulina stigmatipennis Cicadellidae
Neoaliturus fenestratus Cicadellidae
Neoaliturus inscriptus Cicadellidae
Opsius cypriacus Cicadellidae
Opsius stactogalus Cicadellidae
Osbornellus macchiae Cicadellidae
Paramesus obtusifrons Cicadellidae
Platymetopius guttatus Cicadellidae
Proceps acicularis Cicadellidae
Psammotettix cerinus Cicadellidae
Psammotettix majusculus Cicadellidae
Psammotettix provincialis Cicadellidae
Selenocephalus nervosus Cicadellidae
Selenocephalus pallens Cicadellidae
Streptanus albanicus Cicadellidae
Stymphalus rubrolineatus Cicadellidae
Sulamicerus stali Cicadellidae
Synophropsis lauri Cicadellidae
Tamaricella cypria Cicadellidae
Tamaricella tamaricis Cicadellidae
Thamnotettix confinis Cicadellidae
Thamnotettix zelleri Cicadellidae
Zygina digitata Cicadellidae
Zygina flammigera Cicadellidae
Zygina nebulosa Cicadellidae
Zygina ordinaria Cicadellidae
Zygina rhamni Cicadellidae
Zyginella pulchra Cicadellidae
Zyginidia sohrab Cicadellidae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are covered with hairs that facilitate the spreading of a secretion over their bodies that acts as a water repellent and carrier of pheromones.[1] They undergo a partial metamorphosis, and have various host associations, varying from very generalized to very specific. Some species have a cosmopolitan distribution, or occur throughout the temperate and tropical regions. Some are pests or vectors of plant viruses and phytoplasmas.[1] The family is distributed all over the world, and constitutes the second-largest hemipteran family, with at least 20,000 described species.

They belong to a lineage traditionally treated as infraorder Cicadomorpha in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. This has sometimes been placed in its own suborder (Clypeorrhyncha),[2] but more recent research retains it within Auchenorrhyncha.[3]

Members of the tribe Proconiini of the subfamily Cicadellinae are commonly known as sharpshooters.[4]

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